Printed on the plate
“Blue-shouldered Accentor”
Accentor immaculatus
Engraved caption: ACCENTOR IMMACUMATUS, Hodgs.
Modern identification
Prunella immaculata
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Accentors · Prunellidae
Why
Hodgson's Accentor immaculatus (syn. Blyth's mollis) = Maroon-backed Accentor: grey head and breast, chestnut back, rusty vent.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. IV); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Hullmandel & Walton, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
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